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Did you hear? Elon Musk got his $1 trillion pay package. Of course you did, because coverage of that highly anticipated vote is everywhere, including here at TechCrunch . But what does this actually mean?

Yes, this is about money, but it’s more about power and control. You might recall that Musk repeatedly talked about the need to control Tesla and offered up a variety of scenarios, including one involving a robot army , to argue for it.

And the stakes were high; if he didn’t get that control, he threatened to leave. Shareholders simply could not, did not want to imagine Tesla without Elon.

All of that mon

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